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Congregations in America: Mark Chaves; This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most significant form of collective religious expression in American society: local congregations. Among its more surprising findings, the book reveals that, despite the media focus on the political and social activities of religious groups, the arts are actually far more central to the workings of congregations.; Hardcover 2004

Creativity and Tradition: Israel Ta-Shma; This volume brings together sixteen of Ta-Shma's outstanding studies originally written in English, four of which are published here for the first time. Set in Germany, northern France, Italy, Poland, and Spain, these essays focus on leading rabbinic scholars and their writings, as well as important issues of Jewish intellectual history, such as the nature of halakhah and aggadah, kabbalah and spirituality, childhood, and popular religion.; Hardcover 2007

Falaquera's Epistle of the Debate: Steven Harvey; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback

Harvard Judaica: Charles Berlin; Harvard's Judaica Collection is one of the world's great Judaica collections, and is the largest collection of Israeli and Israel-related publications outside of Israel. This book traces the history of the collection from Harvard's founding, with special emphasis on the accelerated growth in the past four decades.; Hardcover 2005

Idolatry: Moshe Halbertal; Avishai Margalit; Translated by Naomi Goldblum; "You shall have no other gods besides Me." This injunction, handed down through Moses three thousand years ago, marks one of the most decisive shifts in Western culture: away from polytheism toward monotheism. Ranging with authority from the Talmud to Maimonides, from Marx to Nietzsche and on to G. E. Moore, this brilliant account of a subject central to our culture also has much to say about metaphor, myth, and the application of philosophical analysis to religious concepts and sensibilities. Its insights into pluralism and intolerance, into the logic and illogic of the arguments religions aim at each other, make Idolatry especially timely and valuable in these days of dark and implacable religious difference.; Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

Jewish Thought in the Seventeenth Century: Edited by Isadore Twersky; Edited by Bernard Septimus; Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

Jewish and Islamic Law: Gideon Libson; Gideon Libson's highly original work on custom is the first attempt to present a comprehensive comparative study of Jewish-Islamic law on a particular topic during the early Middle Ages. His in-depth study of Islamic law--its sources, legal schools, and extensive legal literature--together with his expertise in the wide range of geonic and rabbinic literature enable him to determine the influence of Muslim practice on geonic custom.; Hardcover 2003

The Limits of Enlightenment: Edward Breuer; This book explores the early Jewish confrontation with modernity and its attendant cultural and religious challenges. Focusing on the burgeoning eighteenth-century interest in the study of Scripture, Edward Breuer examines the complex relationship between the Jewish Enlightenment and the German Aufklärung.; Paperback / Hardcover

Love and Joy: Yochanan Muffs; Thorkild Jacobsen; This first single-volume collection of the pivotal writings of this great religious humanist includes his studies of love and joy as metaphors, the laws of war in ancient Israel, the figurative nature of legal language, the role of the prophet and prophetic speech, and the expressions of belonging which united a culture.; Paperback / Hardcover

Making Americans: Andrea Most; This book examines two interwoven narratives crucial to an understanding of twentieth-century American culture: the stories of Jewish acculturation and of the development of the American musical. Here we delve into the work of the most influential artists of the genre during the years surrounding World War II and encounter new interpretations of classics such as The Jazz Singer, Babes in Arms, Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun, South Pacific, and The King and I. We see how the communities these musicals invented and the anthems they popularized constructed a vision of America that fostered self-understanding as the nation became a global power.; Hardcover 2004

People of the Book: Moshe Halbertal; Halbertal provides a panoramic survey of Jewish attitudes toward Scripture, provocatively organized around problems of normative and formative authority, with an emphasis on the changing status and functions of Mishnah, Talmud, and Kabbalah.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

Rabad of Posquiers: Edited by Isadore Twersky; Rabad of Posquières--Rabbi Abraham ben David--was one of the most creative Talmudic scholars of this period. This biographical treatise on Rabad captures his personality, chronicles his role in the intellectual history of the Jews in southern France during the twelfth century, and outlines his influence on subsequent generations.; Hardcover 1962

Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra: Edited by Isadore Twersky; Edited by Jay M. Harris; Paperback / Hardcover

Studies in Maimonides: Edited by Isadore Twersky; Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992

Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature, Volume I,: Isadore Twersky; Hardcover 1979

Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature, Volume II,: Edited by Isadore Twersky; Hardcover 1985

Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature, Volume III,: Edited by Isadore Twersky; Edited by Jay M. Harris; This volume contains eleven original studies, ten in English and one in Hebrew, by some of the most established scholars of Judaica and young newcomers as well. Like the studies in the previous two volumes in the series, those in this new volume shed important light on the Jewish cultural experience across a vast geographic expanse, and over many centuries.; Paperback 2001 / Hardcover 2001

Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion, Volume 1,: Harry Austryn Wolfson; Edited by Isadore Twersky; Edited by George H. Williams; Hardcover 1973

Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion, Volume 2,: Harry Austryn Wolfson; Edited by Isadore Twersky; Edited by George H. Williams; Hardcover 1977

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